The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-15
FRANK O. HADD0OK RECEIVES
METHODIST FELLOWSHIP.

biographer of the Sioux City martyr,
applied for admission into the Meth
odist ministry, and was accepted after
an examination as to his belief in eter-
nal punishment. Mr.. Haddock was
formerly in the Congregational fellow
ship, and was ordained in the Congre-
gational church. Subsequently he re-
tired from the ministry and engaged in
the study of the law, but did not give
up his letters as a minister. While in
this semi-attached relation he prepared
the biography of his father, to which
we have given attention in these col
umns. In that volume he made the
revelations in regard to the elder Had
docks change Of belief in the latter
years of his ministry, and gave copious
extracts from the manuscript volume,
Hell not Eternal" These extracts
have had very wide circulation, and,
as might be expected, they have greatly
| disturbed certain of the Methodist
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publication of this volume, and the ex-
element caused by the revelations of
his fathers acknowledged Universal
ism, young Haddock applies for adj
mission to the Des Moines Conference.
Was it the fact now disclosed that Frank
Haddock was seeking fellowship among
the Methodists, that made him so anx-
ious to discredit his fathers change of
belief; and that caused him to affirm,
without giving particle of evidence to
substantiate the assertion, that his
father relinquished, in the last years Of
his life the faith that he announced so
clearly in the manuscript volume-the
faith that that father believed he was
led into by supernatural infuencesp"
1t would certainly look as if we had
the key to Frank Haddock's singular
anxiety to discredit his fathers men,
DRY in this purpose to enter the minis
try Of the Methodist church, now con-
summated by the action of the Des
Moines Conference.
| There was singular exhibition at
that conference when the case of young
Haddock was under consideration. We
find that his application for fellowship
was championed by Bishop Merrill, who
explained the antecedents Of the young
man, and stated that "when his father
was murdered he resolved to consecrate
| himself to the ministry as life work. :"
There was considerable opposition at
first in the conference to receiving the
applicant. DR.. Oneil, of Clarinda, who
has been one of the foremost in the re-
cent controversy in regard to the elder
Haddock's religious opinions, desired
to know if young Haddock was in full
accord with the doctrine of the church,
particularly as to future rewards and
punishments. He had reason, he re-
marked, to believe that he was not
Thus challenged, Mr.. Haddock pro-
ceeded to make statement of his faith.
He said that he believed that when
Christ died the great human race was
conditionally saved. All who persist
emily rejected that conditional saliva
ton would be lost. But he felt assured
that the atOnement and divine spirit
would 80 operate upon humanity that
the majority would he saved. In his
opinion, there would be saved and lost.
On this statement the candidate was
admitted, and the report informs us the
conference broke into applause when
he announced that there would be
saved and lost ~
Here is a beautiful spectacle pre-
sented for the consideration Of the
Christian world A body of Christians
applauding the sentiment that the pur-
pose of God in the creation of human
souls would be signally defeated; that
the work and mission of Jesus would
prove failure that some souls would
pass eternally out of the hand of God
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did not specify how many souls in his
opinion would suffer this fate, but the
conference was evidently satisfied with
the candidates expression of opinion
that there would be both saved and
lost" as final result, and proceeded at
once to admit him to full fellowship.
And the conference burst out in ap.
plause when the comforting and blessed
doctrine that some souls would go to
an eternal hell, was definitely assured I
Mr.. Frank Haddock evidently had a
very close shave in getting into Meth
odist fellowship. Only as he made clear
that all souls would not finally obey
God and glorify him forever-that all
souls would not yield an ultimate allie
glance to Christ, that remnant would
assuredly be finally condemned to hell,
could he arouse the sympathy OF his
Methodist friends and get permission to
preach the gospel under Methodist au-
spices. 1t was not faith in Jesus Christ
as the Saviour Of the world, or his de-
sire to be useful to his fellow men, that
finally turned the scale. 1t was the
expression of his belief, wormed out of
him while on the stand, that some souls
WOuld he endlesSlV hODalasslv and